Recreational marijuana will become legal in Minnesota on August 1, and multiple cities across the state are considering whether to restrict its use in public places.

Lakeville Mayor Luke Hellier is concerned about the state's law, which will allow people 21 and older to possess and use marijuana, FOX 9 reported.

"We're the seventh-largest city in the Twin Cities, the 30th fastest growing city in the country. So in my opinion, we're doing something right," Hellier told Fox 9. "The last thing I want is a nuisance of marijuana smoke or vaping in the downtown that could prevent people from wanting to come to these businesses."

The Lakeville City Council is considering ordinances Monday that would ban smoking in parks and other public places. The ordinances would make it a petty misdemeanor to use cannabis in public.

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Cannabis will be allowed on private property for people 21 and older unless the owner prohibits it, the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management said, according to FOX 9. Hellier said cities across the state had assumed that marijuana use would only be allowed in private spaces, but two weeks ago, local governments learned it would become legal in private and public.

"We were really surprised that even that this was something we'd have to talk about because the state had basically signaled that they were going to be making all the rules," Hellier said. "This new interpretation that popped up in early July kind of has cities scrambling."

Minnesota's new law also makes it legal to possess or transport up to two ounces of cannabis flower in a public place. Rep. Zack Stephenson told the outlet the law does not state whether people can smoke on the sidewalk or at a public park, and that the decision for those spaces will be left up to cities.

"There’s a fair amount of local in the bill, and so I think it’s entirely natural that cities are taking this approach," Stephenson told Fox 9.

Stephenson also compared the city ordinances to prohibiting alcohol consumption in a park or on the sidewalk.

Cannabis will remain prohibited while driving at public and charter schools, on school buses, at state correctional facilities, in places where the smoke could be inhaled by minors or on federal property.

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Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act also bans smoking and vaping in most indoor public places and workplaces. Hellier said Lakeville's ordinance would rely on resident complaints.

"A business would have to file a complaint, call the city or the police department, say ‘Hey, someone's smoking outside of my restaurant or out front of my business, and it's causing a nuisance,’ and so then, we would come and cite that person," Hellier said.

The Lakeville City Council will also address a potential ban on all cannabis sales in the city until 2025, but Hellier said this would require further discussion, in part, because of how it would impact businesses already licensed to sell hemp products.

In Duluth, city councilors introduced an ordinance last week that intends to ban smoking marijuana in city parks and other locations.

The city councils in West St. Paul and Inver Grove Heights will be asked at meetings on Monday night whether to implement an ordinance restricting the use of cannabis in public spaces.

The proposed ordinance in Inver Grove Heights was modeled after similar proposals in Apple Valley and Prior Lake.

The Prior Lake City Council voted last week to ban the operation of cannabis businesses, as well as the use of cannabis in public, including smoking, vaping and edibles. Cannabis use in public will be a petty misdemeanor.

On July 13, Apple Valley ordered staff and the city attorney’s office to craft an ordinance regulating cannabis use within public property and public places.

Investigations are underway in Washington, D.C., after a valet was beaten and injured, and some customers at two restaurants had their car keys stolen from valet stands in two different incidents.

The first incident happened on Thursday at Diners at Kitchen + Kocktails at 1300 I Street in Northwest D.C., where patrons learned a valet was attacked and keys were stolen, according to FOX 5 DC.

Four suspects arrived at the restaurant in a black Infiniti Q50S with a Maryland hard tag of 50033CJ, according to a police report obtained by the outlet. Detectives said one man distracted the doorman while others broke into the valet key box and stole keys to several vehicles.

The men then fled the restaurant in the Infiniti to I Street NW and turned right onto K Street NW. 

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Police said one of the valets chased the suspects' vehicle on foot until arriving at the 900 block of 13th Street NW, where the suspects were attempting to enter a car matching one of the stolen sets of keys. 

The valet tried to pull the suspects out of the vehicle when they began to attack his face. The valet backed off, and the suspects fled in the stolen car.

DC Fire and EMS responded to the incident and transported the valet to Washington Hospital Center. He was treated for swelling to his forehead and lacerations on his nose.

The second burglary happened at about 10 p.m. on Saturday in which multiple sets of keys were taken from the valet stand at Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse at 950 I St. – a couple of minutes from Kitchen + Kocktails.

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The valet reported the incident and informed responding officers that a suspect approached the valet table while he was assisting a customer, and grabbed four sets of keys belonging to a Maserati, a 2021 Kia, a 2021 Honda and a 2021 Nissan before running away, according to police.

Andrea Ible, who is one of the victims, said she was unable to get into her car until Sunday afternoon, adding that she did not receive her keys back. She expressed frustration with the restaurant over how it is handling the incident. 

"They're not doing anything," Ible told FOX 5. "They were being very negligent."

Both incidents remain under investigation.

Keys have been stolen from valet stands in D.C. on multiple other occasions over the last several months. The most recent taking place outside RPM Italian D.C. at 6th and K Streets in February. A Ruth's Chris Steak House valet was burglarized in Northwest D.C. on Christmas Day, and again on New Year's Day.

It is unclear if any arrests were made in those incidents.